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Degree-Scale CMB Polarization Measurements from Three Years of BICEP1 Data

BICEP1 is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed specifically to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at degree angular scales. We present results from an analysis of the data acquired…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 BICEP1 Collaboration , D. Barkats , R. Aikin , C. Bischoff , I. Buder , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , M. Su , P. A. R. Ade , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , H. C. Chiang , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. Filippini , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , S. S. Kernasovskiy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , H. Hirose , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Vergès , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

Constraining a spatially dependent rotation of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Following Kamionkowski (2008), a quadratic estimator of the rotation of the plane of polarization of the CMB is constructed. This statistic can estimate a spatially varying rotation angle. We use this estimator to quantify the prospects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Amit P. S. Yadav , Rahul Biswas , Meng Su , Matias Zaldarriaga

Robustness of cosmic birefringence measurement against Galactic foreground emission and instrumental systematics

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to search for parity-violating processes like that predicted by a Chern-Simons coupling to a light pseudoscalar field. Such an interaction rotates $E$ modes into $B$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 P. Diego-Palazuelos , E. Martínez-González , P. Vielva , R. B. Barreiro , M. Tristram , E. de la Hoz , J. R. Eskilt , Y. Minami , R. M. Sullivan , A. J. Banday , K. M. Górski , R. Keskitalo , E. Komatsu , D. Scott

Statistical properties of polarized radio sources at high frequency and their impact on CMB polarization measurements

We have studied the implications of high sensitivity polarization measurements of objects from the WMAP point source catalogue made using the VLA at 8.4, 22 and 43 GHz. The fractional polarization of sources is almost independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , M. W. Peel , N. J. Jackson , C. Dickinson

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 J. Cornelison , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Measurement of the Crab nebula polarization at 90 GHz as a calibrator for CMB experiments

CMB experiments aiming at a precise measurement of the CMB polarization, such as the Planck satellite, need a strong polarized absolute calibrator on the sky to accurately set the detectors polarization angle and the cross-polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 J. Aumont , L. Conversi , C. Thum , H. Wiesemeyer , E. Falgarone , J. F. Macias-Perez , F. Piacentini , E. Pointecouteau , N. Ponthieu , J. L. Puget , C. Rosset , J. A. Tauber , M. Tristram

Recovering unbiased CMB polarization maps using modern ground-based experiments with minimal assumptions about atmospheric emission

We present a study of unbiased reconstruction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization maps from data collected by modern ground-based observatories. Atmospheric emission is a major source of correlated noise in such experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Simon Biquard , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Development of realistic simulations for the polarization of the cosmic microwave background

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can help probe cosmic inflation (via primordial $B$ modes) and test parity-violating physics (via cosmic birefringence), but realizing the potential of these opportunities requires…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Marta Monelli

Empirical modelling of the BLASTPol achromatic half-wave plate for precision submillimetre polarimetry

A cryogenic achromatic half-wave plate (HWP) for submillimetre astronomical polarimetry has been designed, manufactured, tested, and deployed in the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). The design…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lorenzo Moncelsi , Peter Ade , Francesco Elio Angile , Steven Benton , Mark Devlin , Laura Fissel , Natalie Gandilo , Joshua Gundersen , Tristan Matthews , C. Barth Netterfield , Giles Novak , David Nutter , Enzo Pascale , Frederick Poidevin , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Juan Soler , Locke Spencer , Matthew Truch , Gregory Tucker , Jin Zhang

CAPMAP: A New Instrument to Measure the E-mode CMB Polarization on Angular Scales of 4 arcmin to 40 arcmin

The CMB polarization is the Everest in the quest to characterize the earliest photons from the Universe. After a long list of ever-decreasing upper limits, a detection of polarization was made in 2002 by the DASI team at ell =~ 500. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Denis Barkats

Development of large radii half-wave plates for CMB satellite missions

The successful European Space Agency (ESA) Planck mission has mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy with unprecedented accuracy. However, Planck was not designed to detect the polarised components of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. Pisano , B. Maffei , M. W. Ng , V. Haynes , M. Brown , F. Noviello , P. de Bernardis , S. Masi , F. Piacentini , L. Pagano , M. Salatino , B. Ellison , M. Henry , P. de Maagt , B. Shortt

A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr of observations collected through 2024 with a variable-delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Yunyang Li , Joseph Eimer , John Appel , Charles Bennett , Michael Brewer , Sarah Marie Bruno , Ricardo Bustos , Carol Chan , David Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Jullianna Denes Couto , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dunner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , John Karakla , Tobias Marriage , Nathan Miller , Carolina Morales Perez , Lucas Parker , Matthew Petroff , Rodrigo Reeves , Karwan Rostem , Caleigh Ryan , Rui Shi , Koji Shukawa , Deniz Valle , Duncan Watts , J. Weiland , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Lingzhen Zeng

Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization of galactic dust. EBEX was launched December 29, 2012 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-01 Francois Aubin , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Derek Araujo , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Julian Borrill , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Stephen Feeney , Christopher Geach , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Theodore Kisner , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin Macdermid , Valerie Marchenko , Amber D. Miller , Michael Milligan , Enzo Pascale , Giuseppe Puglisi , Kate Raach , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Carl Reintsema , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Radek Stompor , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory S. Tucker , Ben Westbrook , Karl Young , Kyle Zilic

Self-Calibration of CMB Polarization Experiments

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Brian Keating , Meir Shimon , Amit Yadav

A Pixel Space Method for Testing Dipole Modulation in the CMB Polarization

We introduce a pixel space method to detect dipole modulation or hemispherical power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The method relies on the use of squared total polarized flux whose ensemble average picks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Shamik Ghosh , Pankaj Jain

Improved Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 J. Cornelison , C. Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. I. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. Look , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reinsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 100GHz. We exploit the Planck HFI polarization data from 100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Planck Collaboration , R. Adam , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , K. Dolag , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , V. Guillet , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , J. Jewell , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , S. Ricciardi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. D. Soler , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , R. Watson , I. K. Wehus , M. White , S. D. M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Forecasting Polarized Radio Sources for CMB observations

We combine the latest datasets obtained with different surveys to study the frequency dependence of polarized emission coming from Extragalactic Radio Sources (ERS). We consider data over a very wide frequency range starting from $1.4$ GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 G. Puglisi , V. Galluzzi , L. Bonavera , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , A. Lapi , M. Massardi , F. Perrotta , C. Baccigalupi , A. Celotti , L. Danese

A Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Polarimeter Using Superconducting Bearings

Measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation are expected to significantly increase our understanding of the early universe. We present a design for a CMB polarimeter in which a cryogenically cooled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Hanany , T. Matsumura , B. Johnson , T. Jones , J. R. Hull , K. B. Ma